YouTube to Test Quarterly and Half-Yearly Channel Memberships
Jul. 18, 2020According to a YouTube support post spotted byAndroid Police, the company may soon let users purchaseeither a three-month or six-month channel membership in a single payment.
Going by the post, the company will implement this new payment scheme on an experimental basis,starting from the 3rd of August. YouTube will run the experiment in the US, India, France, Germany, and Spain.
If we were to go by current channel membership price, the quarterly membership would cost ₹477 and half-yearly membership would be priced at ₹954. However, we could expect some sort of discounted pricing from YouTube’s side to make the offer more appealing to subscribers. Since India is one of the regions planned for running the experiment, we should be getting to know the exact price details soon.
A channel membership will give you loyalty badges that appear next to your name in comments and live chat, custom badges, custom emoji, extra clips, private live streams, promo-codes, and more.
The program will bevalid for at least three months. Depending on the adoption rate, the company may decide whether to skip this or incorporate this as a payment option going forward.
Apart from this, YouTube was previously experimenting with a way to include afree channel membership to YouTube Premium membersearlier this year. This May, the company ran a limited-time trial run with this program in Brazil, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
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